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...gentleman, comes Mr. Pim, a gentle, absent-minded old man. seeking a letter of introduction. He gets it and ambles off, leaving the household in ruins. For Olivia, George's wife, has been married before, to a scalawag whose fraudulent stock-company transactions finally landed him in an Australian jail. Five years after his reported death, she married her second husband. But Mr. Pim says he has just come from Australia on the same boat with her first. George is horrorstruck. His love for Olivia is solid and settled, but his fear of the Law and the County is stronger...
...Manhattan, Commissioner of Correction Richard C. Patterson Jr. while inspecting a jail, was asked by the keeper what charge had brought him in. "Prowling," answered Commissioner Patterson. ''Get in there," said the keeper, locked Commissioner Patterson in a cell where he stayed for half an hour...
...Manhattan, when Fred Roth put three nickels in succession into a pay-station telephone and got no response, Fred Roth ran amok, ripped out the door of the booth, punched a policeman's nose, landed in jail...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...
...with the Examiner at the age of 14 as a contributor of school news. He became the paper's "big shot" reporter and investigator, known throughout the West for his sensational coups. It was Lavine who in 1922 found Clara Phillips ("Hammer Murderess") in Honduras after her escape from jail, and induced her to return to face a life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains that led to the arrest of William Edward...